Posted on 02/15/2007 8:46:13 AM PST by Froufrou
Your office desk harbors far more bacteria than your workplace restroom, and if you're a woman, chances are your workspace has more germs than your male co-workers', a new research report shows.
Women have three to four times the number of bacteria in, on and around their desks, phones, computers, keyboards, drawers and personal items as men do, the study by University of Arizona professor Charles Gerba showed.
Gerba, a professor of soil, water and environmental sciences, tested more than 100 offices on the UA campus and in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oregon and Washington, D.C. The $40,000 study was commissioned by the Clorox Co.
"I thought for sure men would be germier," Gerba said. "But women have more interactions with small children and keep food in their desks. The other problem is makeup."
Don't get Gerba wrong: Women's desks typically looked cleaner. But the knickknacks are more abundant, and cosmetics and hand lotions make prime germ-transfer agents, Gerba said. Makeup cases also make for fine germ homes, along with phones, purses and desk drawers.
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OK...women are not clean, but are they articulate?
Im glad most women I work with arent like her.
And then they open the restroom door with the same hands. You know, the one you have to open to get out.
How often do you think maintenance sanitizes the door handle?
It's the lava lamp and the ancient monitors that scare me. Has the lava lamp been there since the '70's?
Someday, archaeologists will be puzzled by it.
I was made to move into an office that was occupied by a very filthy woman. After she retired, thank goodness. It was the worst cleaning job I've ever had. Just the thought of it makes me want to hurl...again...
I heard on the radio a couple months ago that its because of purses. Women will set their purses anywhere: ground, countertops, floors of bathroom stalls, and desks. They don't realize the amount of filth on the bottom of their purse.
"Bathrooms in my office are sanitized daily with industrial strength disinfectant. The cubicles are dusted maybe once a week."
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The work stations at my job are not even dusted. Our cleaning people are spooked by the electronics -- afraid if they touch anything, they might cause trouble or damage everything. So they don't dust. They usually just empty the trash and vacuum. They don't clean. It's up to us workers to dust and clean.
On day shift we come in and there is something stuck to the floor all around her chair, we dont know what it is.
I suggested if we are lucky she is melting.
The other woman I work with is very clean, even going as far as to clean the break room because she just likes it that way.
Good movie!
I have heard tales that would make you hurl. Let's just say we all keep close tabs on who brings what to the "potluck" lunches.
Agreed... I think that the toilet seat issue is being taught in some of those 'women's studies' courses at the more prestigious universities.
.... and I image Oprah does a show on it every once in a while as well. Gotta keep the troops focused.
Ping.
I had a woman that wanted to move cubes and I would not touch her stuff until she cleaned her debris out of the way. No way. There was a half eaten biscuit, I kid you not, under some paperwork. Foul.
Aren't there germs everywhere?
~guffaw!~ I failed to mention that before this woman retired, when we had potlucks nobody would ever eat what she brought.
Buddy of mine told me she was afraid it was made from "scratch" - and she scratched under the arm when she said it.
Stuff on the floor??? That's just blecht!
Of course there are germs everywhere. We just don't know what kind.
"Men tend to play with their Palm Pilots more," Gerba said. "I think they're playing video games or something."
Something. That's the first time I've heard it called a palm pilot but it seems to fit, in a hairy way, so to speak.
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